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…multiple perspectives on this picture book biography last week. Editor Bev Brenna interviewed me, illustrator François Thisdale, the book’s subject Anne Innis Dagg, and Anne’s daughter Mary. We got brief…
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Pandemic Connections
What do these books have in common? 1. Both were signed to me personally and mailed to me from the US by their authors. 2. I value both books highly,…
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Writing Picture Books: What Works and What Doesn’t
Writing Picture Books: What Works and What Doesn’t Takes novice and seasoned writers through steps from concept to publication. Available here as a downloadable PDF. Reviews Learn More Read an…
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The First International IBBY Canada Meeting
…Refugees, the Indigenous Picture Book Collection, Books for Beirut, Outstanding Books for Young People with Disabilities, and the Silent Books Collection. As I listened to reports on these activities at…
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…of the first picture books for toddlers published in Canada. Kathy has since written a wide range of books: picture books, non-fiction, young adult fiction, historical fiction, horror, biography, series…
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…books or articles about writing. Reading about writing isn’t writing, but sometimes it can help you find your writing mojo again. Read some of my blog posts about writing. If…
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Summer Reading, Reading Aloud
…For The Outside Circle, a graphic novel by Patti Laboucane Benson (Book #37), and The Word Collector and A Family Is a Family Is a Family, picture books by Peter…
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I Want To Go Back to Liberia!
…picture books structured around a pattern with variations, and I’m curious about where that led them (the one or two I did have the chance to read are quite funny!)…
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Looking Ahead… And Looking Back
…and Unity”. When children on the beach, too poor to go to school, see me taking a picture of Ingrid by the water’s edge they gather round, keen to have…
Read More...Kathy Stinson as Editor and Mentor
…These books, too, are getting rave reviews. I had nothing to do with the first published books by Cheryl Rainfield and Erin Thomas, but they too have brought fine writing…
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